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Anacanthotermes
Anacanthotermes is an Old World genus of termites in the Hodotermitidae. They are found in deserts and semideserts of North Africa, the Middle East and Southwest Asia, including Baluchistan and southern India. Wings of the alates are glabrous and lack the microstructures like micrasters, microsetae or rods found in more modern Isoptera. In the driest and most arid locations in Africa it is generally replaced by Psammotermes.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Anacanthotermes ubachi
speciesAnacanthotermes ubachi
Anacanthotermes ochraceus
speciesAnacanthotermes ochraceus
Anacanthotermes turkestanicus
speciesAnacanthotermes turkestanicus
Anacanthotermes ahngerianus
speciesAnacanthotermes ahngerianus
Anacanthotermes viarum
speciesAnacanthotermes viarum
Anacanthotermes macrocephalus
speciesAnacanthotermes macrocephalus
Anacanthotermes vagans
speciesAnacanthotermes vagans
Anacanthotermes septentrionalis
speciesAnacanthotermes septentrionalis
Anacanthotermes gurganiensis
speciesAnacanthotermes gurganiensis
Anacanthotermes esmailii
speciesAnacanthotermes esmailii
Anacanthotermes sawensis
speciesAnacanthotermes sawensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 198935.